CSU team uncovers potential for Rift Valley fever virus transmission in Colorado livestock
CSU researchers found that mosquitoes that could transmit the virus were abundant in feedlots and at nearby sites.
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Groundbreaking marks milestone for Center for Vector-Borne and Infectious Diseases
The CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology celebrated a new era in infectious disease research, with a groundbreaking for the Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases on June 18.
5280 Magazine: Should Coloradans Be Worried About Tick-Borne Illnesses?
The deadliest tick-borne disease has Colorado roots. Powassan virus—which is fatal in 10 percent of cases and leaves half of its victims with brain damage—hasn’t been detected in a Coloradan. But scientists first isolated it from a tick found along the Cache la Poudre River in 1952, six years before the first known human case (in Ontario), says Powassan expert Dr. Gregory Ebel of Colorado State University.
KUNC: The Rocky Mountains Have Ticks. Scientists Want To Know What Viruses They’re Carrying
Alex Byas, who is also a veterinarian and a PhD student at CSU studying West Nile virus, opens a lab fridge to reveal a Ziploc bag full of vials of ticks. They look dead, but they aren’t. She needs them alive to keep the potential viruses inside them fresh.